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U. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE � m�� n^se bete, to this
FILE NUMBER
IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE
MISSOULA, MONTANA 1000/9
May 19, 1942
Special Assistant to the Attorney General Immigration and Naturalization Service Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Attention: W. F. Kelly, Chief Supervisor of Border Patrol.u.
Reference is had to your letter of the seventh instant, your file no. 56086/100 referring to report of the U. S. Public Health Service physician for the month of April, 1942.
Dr. Frank V. Brown, also of the U. S. Public Health Service stationed here, has advised me that the cat situation in the detention camp is not critical but it is desirable that the cats be eradicated or their number reduced to a minimum.
In view of the fact that sailors are very superstitious about either catching or killing a cat, we are proceeding quietly with their eradication and in a short time will have completely accomplished our purpose without any untoward incidents.

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U. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE � m�� n^se bete, to this
FILE NUMBER
IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE
MISSOULA, MONTANA 1000/9
May 19, 1942
Special Assistant to the Attorney General Immigration and Naturalization Service Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Attention: W. F. Kelly, Chief Supervisor of Border Patrol.u.
Reference is had to your letter of the seventh instant, your file no. 56086/100 referring to report of the U. S. Public Health Service physician for the month of April, 1942.
Dr. Frank V. Brown, also of the U. S. Public Health Service stationed here, has advised me that the cat situation in the detention camp is not critical but it is desirable that the cats be eradicated or their number reduced to a minimum.
In view of the fact that sailors are very superstitious about either catching or killing a cat, we are proceeding quietly with their eradication and in a short time will have completely accomplished our purpose without any untoward incidents.